I don't see how sexuality could effect inteligience...?

Question

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Answer 1

sexuality has no bearing on intelligence. but lack of intelligence and common sense does make a person who asks such questions a bigot. the person who asked that question is nothing but an ignorant homophobe. we are all as God created us.

Answer 2

I don't think gender determines how much intelligence a particular brain has. What I do think is that gender does affect the way intelligence is used. There seems to be a consensus that women behave in a way different way to men. Often women are more verbal and men might be more interested in things, and generally have more confidence in unfamiliar situations.
The difference between how men and women behave is the subject of endless discussion. Part of this difference is determined by social conditioning, while part of it is undoubtedly innate.
Women sometimes do things that men cannot believe, like having difficulty reversing a car, while in women's eyes men are incredibly inept in social situations.
Men also have the disadvantage that when they become even slightly sexually aroused they lose all sense of proportion and become virtually enslaved to their desires. This in itself is one cause of the incredible dumbness of men.
As was described in a recent book, by a woman who spent a year living as a man, men are also put under greater pressure in situations involving male/female interaction. The man is supposed to make the first move, the man has to invite .. the man has to take the lead ... Men are also confronted with more aggression than women. A policeman deals with a man differently than he deals with a woman.
These are all factors that make questions about and measurements of intelligence a difficult area, and one you'd be well advised to leave alone unless you intend to become a behavioural psychologist or sociologist.

Answer 3

While doing a paper in Psychology on Neurophysiology, I read more than once that autopsies of gay men (no studies done of lesbians) reveal two brain differences, a larger than usual node of the hypothalamus, and a larger corpus callosum (women's are also larger), than straight men. The corpus callosum allows communication between the verbal and spatial halves of the brain. This may not translate to an IQ score, but it suggests to me that gay people may perform certain brain functions better.

Answer 4

Maybe they're just more studious than most but that is what studies have shown.

Answer 5

it can't